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In Defense of Joe Lieberman
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 12:11pm | mal contends
Update: Hartford Courant: Secret Ballot To Decide Lieberman's Fate - "Joe Lieberman votes with me a lot more than a lot of my senators. He didn't support us on military stuff, and he didn't support us on Iraq stuff. But you look at his record, it's pretty good." - Sen. Harry Reid
I don’t care for Joe Lieberman as a U.S. Senator.
Lieberman went right along with the obscenity of the Iraq Invasion and the Patriot Act, among other imbecilities.
I don’t care for Joe Lieberman as a public man.
Even among elected officials in Congress, Lieberman stands out as a lying propagandist.
Tags: Parts of Patriot Act Struck Down
Thu, 09/06/2007 - 6:56pm | Steve Hanson
According to tomorrow's New York Times , parts of the Patriot Act were struck down today by a federal judge in the district court in Manhattan. In particular, the use of national security letters by the FBI to force communications companies to turn over their records and prevents the companies from disclosure was ruled unconstitutional. This is one of the parts of the act that had been previously found unconstitutional, and which Congress attempted to correct when passing the extension of the Patriot Act.
Judge Victor Marrera found the minimal changes to the act lacking, stating
“When the judiciary lowers its guard on the Constitution, it opens the door to far-reaching invasions of privacy,” Judge Marrero wrote, pointing to discredited Supreme Court cases endorsing the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War and racially segregated railroad cars in the 19th century.
“The only thing left of the judiciary’s function for those Americans in that experience,” he wrote, “was a symbolic act: to sing a requiem and lower the flag on the Bill of Rights.”
The judge did not immediately enforce the ruling, giving the government an opportunity to appeal first.
A copy of the decision is attached below.